Chess: scan, play, analyze

It is more and more often the case that the scan doesn't work whereas there's no network problem on my side. It last for an hour. Simply the scan part never ends. For sure because there's a problem on you server. You should definitely plan on a local (i.e. user's phone) scanning option because the more user your app will have, the less your server will absorb the request etc. This probleme happens one or two times per days nowadays. It really spoils an app that was great before.

Very useful for training! But the app has some strange bugs. Sometimes it moves player's piece on its own. And sometimes a new game suddenly starts in the middle of an ongoing one.

This is an excellent app for chess training. You can easily scan chess positions from books, magazines, computer displays and analyse positions using the excellent onboard chess engines. I find it helpful to try out moves that are not the best to discover why they are inferior. It is particularly enjoyable when examining highly dynamic positions that lead to mate or a significant positional advantage using exciting tactics.

Scan used to work perfectly, but now it's garbage. Edit: Sorry to break it to you, but it's STILL broken AF, perfectly clear image and it's not even close, can't even tell black from white. Broken trash.

Love the analysis. But it still have a bug after a scan of a broad is off, so i have to redit the board. Other then that its pretty decent love using it.

This is the best app I have ever seen, I mean it's already incredible that you can take pictures of positions in books or of your board and analyze them, but it actually even finds for you youtube videos in which that position was featured. Just incredible. Thank you!!!

Seriously cannot even rotate the board while playing ai, that's how clunky and low featured this is.. Obviously for an app like this swapping sides or playing ai side was expecting too much

Gets better with each update. I use it for the scanner feature which is unparallel to anything I have ever seen. Planning to use the other features too and subscribe as well. Kudos to the team.

I like the ability to organize boards in folders, but I found renaming a folder loses all boards within. Lost my favorites that way. Luckily I could get them back by renaming the folder to the original name. Fix please.

Intuitive, smooth, and aesthetically pleasing analysis app. A joy to use! To the developers: do you have any plans for allowing users to re-order saved analyses and their parent folders? This would be an absolute game changer for me, since I run through my ever-evolving opening repertoire on the app too. *Gets down on knees and begs*

After scanning, analysis page fails to open and returns to scan page. Restart allows analysis page to stay open.

I just installed this app and I thought it was very handy for analyzing chess diagrams as well as playing a game with the computer. You can either start the game from the very beginning or start at the middle of a game, eg, to analyze a classic opening. I have two suggestions for improvement: 1) Provide a variety of display styles for the chessmen symbols. 2) As I understand it, this app is designed to scan diagrams rather than photographs. Is it possible to scan a photograph of an _actual_ chessboard, looking straight down at it? I do realize that this may be difficult.

The ideas on this app are really good, mainly the scanner and you tube search of the positions . However, there is a lot of room for improvement: 1. It does not work on iOS. 2. There is no native resolution in iPad. 3. The you tube search does not work ( at least in android, since I could not try the app in iOS). If you focus on improving that this will be a great app for training chess and a must for every chess player . You could improve slightly the scanner, but in general it works fine.

Have been looking for a reliable chess scanner that could handle both books and, especially, screen shots for online sources. Works great, with only an occasional (very infrequent) scanning error that is easily corrected in the program itself. Being able to export to my preferred chess program is also exceptionally easy. Just what I've been looking for.

This is exactly the app I need. Chessify captures several useful features in one bundle. Scan, Play and Analysis. However, till now I had no luck with scan. Every time I try to scan an image from a book or mobile, I get the same error => "Failed to capture an image". I so badly need the scan feature that I had tried several phones with different android versions. But I keep getting the same error message in all of them. Moreover, the registration does not work either. After I provide a nickname it displays a message "registration successful". After that nothing happens, the app continues to display the same screen. Please fix this. I want to use this app!

Ok this is the best chess analysis app out there. The scanning system doesn't skip a beat which is the core job of the app, so great. I would definitely buy a paid version if it offered enhanced analysis (save variations, etc) and a better management of the saved positions (eg creating studies, folders). I know it's not the scope of the app which is thought to be just a collection of tools but hey, my here's my two cents

Excellent chess app. I use it for solving puzzles which are in my newspaper . It can take a photo of the puzzle and then 'import' it into the app. Then I can cheat and let the game engine give me the best move. But I rarely do that. I can now move the pieces myself and figure out the solution. The app has loads more features. I'm just telling you what I do with it

Overall a clever app. Sometimes the scans do not get a piece or two right; it depends on the clarity of the original and the pieces style of the original one is scanning. I love that one can scan a screenshot or photo in my gallery. Very convenient. My only big gripe and why I took off a star is that when one names a saved scan it cuts off the file name in the scans gallery to the width of the board thumbnail (the file names displays underneath the thumbnail). The full file name should display.

This app is an excellent idea with sketchy execution. Scans are iffy at best, even directly from the camera roll, always missing or misplacing anywhere from 1 to 4 pieces on the board. My Battery history shows that the app made up 48% of my battery consumption after only 1 minute of direct usage, even with background restrictions on. (This may be atypical, but such a power drain should be noted.) The inclusion of Stockfish is appreciated, but the app has too many problems that ruin it for me.

Great Chess Board Scanner, works great. I scan screen shots from the phone and TV, the app works flawlessly every time. It saves all scanned positions automatically (discovered that by chance) Suggestions: Analysis modes to show beat moves as arrows on the board. Analysis button does not work sometimes especially after switching engines. Ability to make engine play against itself Thanks for the good work

This application is amazing. Hands down one of the best chess apps available. You can tell the author cares about producing a great product. One request I have, which is really minor, is it would be nice if when in horizontal mode, (i.e. when playing on a tablet for example), if the chess board would enlarge itself to fill the available height and width. Unfortunately, now it's a little square in the upper left corner.

This app rules!!! I've been searching for a convenient digital chess board to mess around with positions for months and this is the one. No obtrusive ads, analysis being available yet not automatically on, simple to set up a custom board AND the awesome camera recognition feature make this app so great that I actually *chose* to leave this review without it even bugging me to, which is rare for me to do. It's not often I find an app that simply does what it says on the tin, so I appreciate it!!

I scan a board, there is an error in the scan, but I cannot edit the board. The only buttons that work are white/black for castling and Done. For the rest whatever I touch nothing happens. A small scanned board keeps flashing in the lower right corner. I want to analyse the position (ignore the fact that the position is not correct), I choose an engine. Cannot see any button to analyse. VERDICT: DOES NOT WORK AT ALL.

Nice app, but increase the strength of engine. For example, Stockfish 14 has an elo 2850, but it's plays very wel

Easy scan of diagrams and easy sharing of FEN. There is nothing better in the Android world. I upgraded this rating after discovering they no longer push very annoying ads. I downgraded my rating after discovering they put low limits on free monthly scans, and are outrageously high priced for limited time. Especially, since all I need is simple scan and sharing of FEN. Sadly, no life-time pricing. What is desperately needed is some competition in this niche market.

New to chess, but love scanner for learning by making screenshots available to play. Can app edit scans? Would be useful when scan gets it wrong. Ex..one scan put black bishop where needed white. Great tool! Thanks!

This is the best app for chess it helped a lot In my puzzles and it helped for the puzzle I can't do then it yell how to do it and also can play games with computer friends and online thanks a lot for such a good app for chess.❤❤

Amazing application, it saves me so much time and inconvenience when analyzing positions from videos on the internet! If it had a single purchase option instead of the subscription model, I'd even consider paying for it. Also, it even gives you a helpful notification if you leave the analyzis running in the background!